菸草最終可能導致三分之一中國青年男性死亡

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一項新的研究表明,如果目前的吸菸模式持續下去,菸草將在未來幾十年內導致近三分之一的中國青年男性死亡。 研究人員今天在《英國醫學雜誌》上發表了他們的研究結果。

為了預測中國菸草引起的死亡率,香港大學的林大慶 (T.H. Lam) 和他的同事評估了目前香港吸菸相關的死亡率,香港的捲菸消費高峰期比中國大陸早約 20 年。 該團隊研究了 1998 年去世的 27,000 多名 35 歲或以上的人的醫療記錄,以及 13,000 多名活體對照受試者的醫療記錄。 他們發現,菸草導致 35 歲至 69 歲男性死亡人數的 33%,以及女性死亡人數的 5%; 在男性吸菸者中,菸草導致了大約一半的死亡。

作者總結說,香港顯而易見的危害預示著“未來幾十年內,中國因菸草引起的死亡率將大幅增加,除非已經吸菸的成年人廣泛戒菸。”

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大眾科學 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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